Statue to Lloyd George

Leftist logic - statue to a white man is bad, yet a black terrorist is good?...

A new statue of former Prime Minister David Lloyd George was at the centre of an extraordinary row last night amid allegations that he endorsed the 'right to bomb niggers'.

The sculpture of the Liberal politician, viewed as one of the greatest premiers of the 20th century, will be unveiled by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in front of the Houses of Parliament today.

But Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter and a string of other anti-war campaigners have condemned what they describe as the 'utterly disgraceful' commemoration of his legacy.

Pinter, the Left-wing journalist John Pilger and former UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Denis Halliday have called on Lloyd George not to be honoured with the statue because under his leadership Britain bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt and Iran.

In a letter to today's Daily Telegraph, they also complain at his use of a phrase which apparently approved of 'reserving the right to bomb niggers'.

The meaning of the phrase is disputed because, although it was attributed to Lloyd George, it was recorded in the 1934 diary of his second wife and former mistress Frances Stevenson.

Despite the use of the racist word, some believe it may have been an ironic disapproval of Ramsay Macdonald's government's stance in armament talks at the

League of Nations in 1932. At the talks, Germany had called for an end to aerial bombardment during conflicts.

But Britain had argued that this military option should be retained.

The letter says that under his premiership, which began during the First World War in 1916 and ended in 1922, Britain used planes to bomb Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran and Iraq.

**Strange, not a mention from anyone on the left about the statue of black terrorist Nelson Mandela which was put up in London not so long ago. Maybe according to their logic victims can only be remembered if they are not white? Tags: Nelson Mandella, Terrorist

South Africa, Red Ken, mkhonto we Sizwe, ANC

Previous posts on terrorist Nelson:http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/09/nelson-mandela-is-cunt.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/08/nelson-mandela-time-for-repost.html
http://newportcity.blogspot.com/2007/04/nelson-mandella-statue-to-terrorist.html

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